History and Geography

Elon University senior environmental studies major Sam Shoge received a statewide award for innovative undergraduate research using Geographic Information Systems at the 2011 North Carolina GIS conference held this month at the Raleigh Convention Center.

History professor Mary Jo Festle gave the Burkhardt Lecture at Knox College on Jan. 13, 2011, in a talk titled, “Lung Transplantation in the U.S.: The Historical, Personal, and Political.”

Belk Library added a rare volume to its archives this fall when an Elon alumna donated to the university a copy of the first land survey ever completed in England, today considered one of the most important documents of the medieval era.

Amy M. Johnson, assistant professor of history and Minority Post-Doctoral Fellow, presented at the annual African Studies Association conference held in San Francisco, Calif.

The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies have honored two Elon University faculty members with the Christopher Crittenden Memorial for lifetime contributions to the advancement of North Carolina history.

Churches have always split on doctrinal or political grounds, and prior to the Civil War, that wedge issue, more often than not, was slavery. Elon University senior Amber Woods explored how early churches in Kentucky responded to debates over emancipation, and her undergraduate research is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.

Clyde Ellis, professor of history, presented his most recent fieldwork and research at the annual meeting of the Western History Association Oct. 13-16.